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Customer Service Off Loaded from Plane with no future dated ticket or help

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Aug 11, 2015, 8:44 PM

Thomsonmathew Thomsonmathew is offline

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the pain continues

After this episode the additional cost i need to bear is $ 250 (change penalty for wife) + $ 250 (change penalty for Infant) + $210 (Fare difference fo wife) + $ 25 (difference for infant)...thats a total of $735

Instead of showing courtesy now we are asked to pay $ 735 for an unexpected event. The infant ticket itself didnt cost that much in the first place but the cancellation seems to be per person not per ticket . Infant doest even have a seat then why the additional 250$ for rebooking the infant ticket while its on the same ticket as her mother.

I really hope someone can help here.

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